Free Alaska DMV permit practice tests

14. The permit is valid for two years and can be renewed once. While you practice, a licensed driver who is at least 21 and has at least one year of experience with the same kind of vehicle has to sit beside you. Applicants under 18 need a parent or guardian's consent.

The written test covers only what is in the Alaska Driver Manual: traffic laws, safe driving practices, and road signs. The Alaska DMV describes its General Knowledge Test as 20 questions in 25 minutes, with 16 correct answers to pass. You also take a vision test, where you need at least 20/40. The DMV lets you take the written test online. If you fail, you can try again the next day. If you understand English but have trouble reading, someone may read the questions to you, but you have to answer on your own.

You must be at least 16 and have held your instruction permit for six months. A parent, legal guardian, or employer has to certify at least 40 hours of driving, including 10 hours in harder conditions such as bad weather or night driving. You can't have any traffic convictions in the six months before you apply. Then you pass the road test and bring a signed parental consent.

You can't carry passengers unless a parent, legal guardian, or someone 21 or older is in the car, though siblings are allowed. You can't drive between 1:00 and 5:00 a.m. unless one of those adults is with you, or you are driving to, from, or for work by the most direct route. After six months without a conviction, you can have the restrictions removed with a new parental consent and a new license. They end at 18 in any case.

You bring a registered vehicle with proof of insurance, and the examiner checks its equipment first. No one else rides with you and the examiner. You are graded on tasks such as parallel parking or a three-point turn, a quick stop, backing, lane changes, and intersections. Breaking a traffic law or contributing to a crash is an automatic failure. If you fail, you normally wait two business days to try again. Approved third-party testers, such as some driving schools, also give road tests.

90 days after your 21st birthday. Before you renew, you have to pass an alcohol awareness test.

As of October 2026, the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles lists the instruction permit at $15. Its fee list notes that there is no Real ID compliant version of the instruction permit.

The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles tells you to bring a completed application (form D1), parental consent form 433 for a car, and proof of relationship to the minor, such as a birth certificate, adoption documents or guardianship documents. It also asks for one document of each type on its list, starting with proof of legal name, date of birth and lawful presence.

An Alaska instruction permit is valid for two years and may be renewed one time, according to the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles. The Alaska Driver Manual gives the same period for each type of non-commercial instruction permit.